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Friday, 3 August 2012

WIP: New Necron Overlord - plastic Mumm-Galva-Cron

Ever notice how all bad guys have some sort of devil horns?
No?
No, me either.
But they should.
A nice simple, deep symbolic representation of their evil.
Take Galvatron - leader of the Decepticons from about 1985/6 when the 'new leaders' were introduced to Transformers.. He loved a horn.

Or Mumm Ra. Yes, you can tell my age from these classic 80's cartoon references.

In 'Ever Living' form, he also loved a bloody good horning.

Now, the current Necron range has this feature in plenty.

I love it, but after some time of hard tabletop action..my Fine(fail)cast Overlord has, again, lost his Warscythe to my ahem...careful...packaging of miniatures post game.

This is the final straw.. I need my miniatures to withstand a bloody good battering, mainly..at my hands when in transit. But also for when opponents handle mini's or casually batter them off the table with their fat asses! Jokes.

So I have built a replacement. He is a towering figure of a Necron, broad of shoulder and as tall as the pointiest Mega-Lith... plus, he is spiky! Whoot! My biggest issue was the representation of the warscythe. I based the mini off of the Lychguard kit and used the Staff from the Praetorian kit.. I've used up my warscythes on other mini's..mainly my converted Destroyer-Wraiths..

So this is the big dog. He truly does stand head and shoulders above a regular Necron Warrior.

And, because I used a Destroyer body, he is broad indeed, almost terminator big. So I feel he is of an appropriate size.

The only thing I miss is the cool ass metallic cloak. Plus, I think I may model a Tachyon Arrow pistol as well to make him a bit more Glavatron-y.. the purple colour scheme will really help that too..He is simple, so I think I would like to embellish him a little, he will most certainly be getting a small single scarab modelled onto his base to represent Mindshackle Scarabs...gotta be wysiwyg!

What do you think guys? Is he bad ass enough to lead the Necron Legions? Or should I just grab another fincast Overlord?! lol